• SC Veterans Center offers aid to homeless
    Teams of South Carolina health providers, community workers and therapists are coming together to offer medical screenings and services to the homeless in Columbia.
  • SC plastic surgeon's medical license suspended
    South Carolina's medical board has suspended the license of a plastic surgeon who it says left an operating room for hours during surgery and had sex with staffers who became his patients.
  • Graham, DeMint agree on military detainee trials
    South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to North Charleston's Navy brig, but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.
  • Southern Dems cast wary eye at election results
    Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.
  • SC high court says gov's ethics probe is public
    South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.
  • Chief of NC hospital out after veterans complain
    The director of the Fayetteville VA Medical Center is retiring amid reports of dissatisfaction among employees and patients at a hospital that has struggled with adversity for more than a decade.
  • Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail
    An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.